product liability

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02 Apr 2015,
Erik Vollebregt
This blog has discussed product liability cases in relation to the EU Product Liability Directive before (for example here and here). Now there is another product liability case recently decided by the European Court of Justice,…

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21 May 2013,
Erik Vollebregt
ENVI’s amendments, following those of IMCO have been published now after translation, see here for IVDs and here for medical devices. This accounts for the biggest load of the amendments (297 –…

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27 Dec 2011,
Erik Vollebregt
The judgment in the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Besançon v Thomas Dutrueux, Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie du Jura case that I wrote about earlier has been handed down by the EU Court on…

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31 Oct 2011,
Erik Vollebregt
Now here is an important case for the medical devices industry. Although product liability litigation has not (yet) evolved into the type of bet the company litigation it can be in the…

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12 Apr 2011,
Erik Vollebregt
I know, nobody likes reminders. But this one is for a good cause: our free seminar / webinar about M&A in the medical devices sector this Wednesday 13 April in the afternoon. …

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15 Nov 2010,
Erik Vollebregt
I attended an interesting seminar today about software as medical device organised by NEN, the Dutch standardisation institute. Speakers at the seminar highlighted the different views on this subject from the perspective…

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11 Nov 2010,
Erik Vollebregt
On 28 April 2010 the European Commission published the SCENHIR’s opinion on reprocessing of medical devices, which was adopted by the SCENHIR on 15 April 2010. This opinion was commissioned pursuant to…